Sunday, October 23, 2011

Ryan Finnie has announced the release of Finnix 103, a Debian-based live CD for system administrators, now also with a new "forensic mode": "Finnix
103 released. Finnix 103 includes a new forensic mode. When booted with
the 'forensic' or 'forensics' boot flags, Finnix changes its behavior
to minimize the chance of loading suspect code or writing to suspect
media. These changes include cryptographic hash verification of
discovered Finnix CD media, locking block devices, and avoiding swap,
LVM, RAID, crypt and network auto-detection. Entropy generation added.
Modern Linux distributions add to their random number generator (RNG)
entropy pool by saving some random data before shutdown, and adding it
back into the pool during start-up. A live CD cannot normally do this,
so Finnix includes a new feature to generate random data to be fed into
the pool...." The release announcement. Download (MD5): finnix-103.iso (113MB, torrent), finnix-ppc-103.iso (115MB, torrent).

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 7, a Gentoo-based desktop distribution with KDE 4.7, GNOME 3.2 and Xfce 4.8 desktops: "More
busy than busy bees, we're once again here to announce the immediate
availability of Sabayon 7. Linux kernel 3.0, GNOME 3.2, KDE 4.7, Xfce
4.8, LibreOffice 3.4 are just some of the things you will find inside
the box. During this cycle, the development team spent a lot of time on
integrating GNOME 3.2 the way users might actually start to love it. At
the same time, Sabayon Xfce has been promoted to non-experimental
release, for those missing GNOME 2." Read the release announcement for a list of features and improvements. Download: Sabayon_Linux_7_x86_K.iso (2,035MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_7_x86_G.iso (1,611MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_7_amd64_K.iso (2,257MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_7_amd64_G.iso (1,840MB, MD5, torrent).